When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.